[Zope3-dev] ? vs $

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On 6/13/02 2:35 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org> wrote:

> SteveA and I are confused why in a path in TALES you can use ? for
> expansion, but $ elsewhere.  E.g. you can write
> 
>   <td tal:content="context/?jobid/summary">
> 
> I believe that in string expressions you can use $foo to expand a
> variable:
> 
>   <td tal:content="string:${jobid}">
> 
> Why can't we use $jobid in the first example?

My guess is that it's because Zope id's can have $ in them (and even begin
with $), since $'s are allowable in URL's, but ? is not (since it separates
the query string part).  You can add an object named $foo to Zope today, but
not ?foo

Personally, I'd rather have to do a $$ style escape for those rare
circumstances.  I totally forgot that the ? option existed for TALES path
expressions.  Is it in Zope 2.5?

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Jeffrey P Shell 
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